The ‘Religion’ of the Secular Left

Political analysts talk about conservatives and "the religious right," but you don't hear much about liberals and the "secular left."

Yet this stealth movement in American politics is becoming increasingly evident.

By the time the 1992 Democratic Convention rolled around, the largest religious block of delegates was not religious at all, and identified themselves as "...secularists, self-identified secularists, defined as atheists, agnostics, and those with no religious preference,” said social scientist Gerald De Maio.

De Maio and fellow social scientist Louis Bolce have been tracking this trend. It turns out that in every presidential election since 1992, about 70 to 80 percent of the secular liberals vote for the Democratic candidate.

And what De Maio and Bolce say the media miss, is how many of the Democrats' secularists and liberals have come to actually loathe religious conservatives.

For instance, in 2000, Bolce recalls, "...35 percent of Al Gore's total vote among whites came from people who intensely dislike evangelical Christians."

Ann Coulter's new book Godless looks at how this contempt for people of God -- and especially all they believe in -- has taken secularists and liberals to an ironic place: their anti-religious liberalism has actually become, in itself, a religion.

Coulter explains how abortion is its sacrament, Roe v. Wade is its holy writ, public school teachers its clergy, and Darwinism its liberal creation myth.